In the midst of a primary season where every state is trying to outdo the rest, Maine is content to do caucuses its own way. The state's many small towns have long held individual caucuses any time between January and March, and the state Republican Party's efforts to reel them into a single week has had mixed success.
PORTLAND, Maine — Hundreds of Maine Republicans are headed to municipal caucuses as the 2012 presidential campaign gets real in Maine. GOP activists were asked to hold their caucuses between Feb. 4 and 11, and more than half are being held this weekend.
Members of the Legislature's Veterans and Legal Affairs Committee voted to direct the Secretary of State to conduct a thorough study of Maine's election system, a move that ends a controversial carryover bill that sought to require voter identification.
Lawmakers are close to completing work on a bill that will cut more than $140 million in spending and pay the Medicaid bills for the current budget year after a day of partisan caucuses and lengthy negotiations.
After scraping by on handyman jobs for a year, Bert Qintana figured he'd have to leave his wife and teenage son at their home near Taos, N.M., and find work elsewhere.
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Medicaid program in Maine is short of money, and conservative Governor Paul LePage has a blunt proposal for solving the problem — drop people from the rolls.
